 mosquito. Well let's give this a minute to do its thing. It's kind of funny. This doesn't always start recording right away when it says it starts. It's probably started by now though. So obviously today to address the elephant in the room today is Christmas which isn't a particularly big deal for me. I don't do anything super special. You know I hang out with my kids and stuff who are outside right now but yeah we've been hanging out this morning. Anyway let's see. My Christmas present to myself today is that if anyone asks me to do something the answer is no. For the entire day the answer is no. I'm not doing it. Whatever anyone asks me to do the answer is no. Hello Shadow Mancer. I hope you're having a good day with your family or your people or whoever you've got. Let's see who else is here. I do have something to talk about today. I'm not going to make it super long because I'm I'm gonna presume that people are generally speaking with their families. There's some mosquito in here. Okay yeah you know people are busy today but there is something I wanted to talk about briefly because not everyone is spending time with their family. Some there are a few people out there who are spending the holidays by themselves and I'll get to that in a minute. Well a few minutes. You know there are some people who are spending the holidays by themselves and even if you don't make a big deal about the holidays or anything it's still hard to notice or it's hard to not notice that you're by yourself when you're having a holiday by yourself. Now I have had my fair share of lonely holidays. Wait here it is. Oh look at that I got him right there. I'm just committed murder but that's okay because he would have sucked the blood out of me. So I've had my fair share of lonely holidays. Christmas is where I was totally by myself so anyone else who's in this position right now you know just want you to know there are other people out there who either are spending their holidays by themselves or have and I'll tell you a little bit of my story about my some of my alone Christmases to maybe maybe give you a little bit of that Christmas cheer hope whatever that means. So I had a whole string of several years where I had holidays by myself all my holidays by myself and it was because it's it's it's the part of my life where I changed my direction drastically and started going down a path that was a pretty lonely path at the beginning because it kind of turned away from everything I'd grown up with everything I'd been told and everything I learned and I was like I'm going I'm going down this path it's gonna be a lonely path that I don't see anyone else on it and I'm probably gonna have to spend a you know like a decade or something largely just being by myself and maybe I'll slowly find some new people to who can who can you know who are compatible with this other life path but I'm going on this life path which basically means I'm leaving leaving behind all the people I know all my family and everything not in a harsh way or an impolite way it's just you know I know I'm diverging from everyone so at that point I knew I was gonna be spending a lot of time by myself and I did I spent several years probably about some probably somewhere around a decade with like you know alone Christmases and holidays and stuff like that but it was okay because I felt like I was a working toward something like I was on this path and it was a lonely path but I felt like it was it was headed towards something that was worthwhile and you know I'm sure there are some people out there right now who are in that situation you've kind of gotten themselves onto a path that's kind of a lonely path and they're hoping there's they're they're going towards something that's better so I'm gonna tell you a little bit about my better so it took a lot of work and a lot of spending time alone and a lot of you know dealing with frustrations and then tackling obstacles but today I would say I'm at least I'm at least started on almost everything I want to do in my life like there are a few things that are just just totally absent but but overall you know I've I've moved to a place that I love you know I'm living on this island it's actually a pair of islands two little islands in in the Caribbean and I love it here the the climate's amazing I love the ocean I love boats I love this whole thing and this seemed like such a far-off dream not that long ago like ten years ago this whole thing seemed absolutely ridiculous like even at the point when I sold my my place in the United States and started traveling I was like you know I'm going for it but like I have no idea if this is gonna work out but you know I just kept sticking to the path doing what I thought was right regardless of what everyone else thinks and I got to this place where where I want to be and I really love this place I want to be here and then even you know building this house this giant cathedral thing okay it's not giant for a cathedral but for but it's my own cathedral I built it with my own hands seemed like seemed like it was something that was kind of like a little bit outside of what was reasonably possible but I just kept going down this path and yes it was a lonely path but it kept taking the steps one one step at a time and got to this place where I had this amazing place and my kids love it here this morning they spent I don't know probably an hour and a half running laps around the middle of the house because the house is big enough even in the middle of the house you can run laps around it it's pretty good and that's because the other day we watched a video of cheetah because I mentioned to my kids that you know their cheetahs run like 80 miles an hour I don't remember what the number is but it's something ridiculous like that something ridiculous like 80 miles an hour or something I don't know what the numbers but they're like what that sounds that's crazy and so I showed them a video that and we got this really good video of a cheetah running for like I don't know like 25 seconds and it started powering up and it was going and it was it seemed like it was going ridiculously fast but it kept getting faster and faster and faster and then and you can tell the camera guy was having a tough time keeping keeping on this freaking bolt of lightning going through the through the grass and you can see the grass in the trees just when this cheetahs just whoa anyway so right after that my kids three of them anyway we're like yeah I'm gonna run like a cheetah and at first my four-year-old got on all fours and he's running around the house and then he realized no no it actually works faster if I run on my on my two legs so the last the last couple days there's there's been a lot of sprinting around the house like a cheetah anyway well you know having all these amazing kids and all this stuff that I love in my life and you know right now I'm building some machines that I'm that I'm very excited about because you know I've been doing a lot of digging and concrete building and stuff which I love that stuff too I just haven't built a machine in a while and the other day I machine something on the lathe like like not just some crappy little thing like I like I like like a real thing like I was I was at it for like an hour with the lathe and just precision cool I was amazing I love building machines so you know and all all this happened because I went down this path that started out as a very lonely path and I did spend a whole bunch of holidays by myself and so you know if you're if you're in a position right now when you're where you're spending some holidays by yourself because you're working on something I just want to give you give you a little bit of extra hope that you know you can get you can get some pretty cool places if you just stick to what you think and don't don't back down just because there's a social pressure and maybe you have to spend some time alone so don't worry about spending some holidays alone you know obviously it's more it's more fun to be with your family and friends and stuff but just for the people who are who are stuck by themselves just just stick to your thing man keep doing your thing you're gonna get somewhere really cool all right let's let's see what people are talking about here I gotta use this hand oh yeah I usually have my camera on that side but it's not on this side now for some reason how are things going with the dragon scales well the kids have been all four my kids have been at my house almost every day for like the last I don't know a few weeks I don't know just ain't has been busy doing some other stuff and she's like here take the kids and I'm like the kids can stay at my house all they want anytime they want normally it's like 50 50 but yeah they've been here a lot and I don't like going up on the roof when I have the two-year-old here just because it's it's too much of a distraction you know like if it's the older kids are here even my four-year-old my four-year-old is here and you know my usually if my if my two middle kids are here they play together very well very calmly and they can play together with Lego for hours with no fights or anything so when the two of them are here I I'll go up on the roof when we're gonna but like if my two-year-old here and kind of sometimes it's my 12-year-old here because she's a little feisty she starts she starts some crap sometimes she can start to fight so I gotta keep an eye on her but anyway so I haven't gone up on the roof in a while but I do have I did finish that one row not too long ago and this week you know the kids will be at the Shana's for at least a few days and if I get a good cloudy day I'm gonna go up on the roof and start doing the next row but the roof is going amazing like I can tell like the whole outer edge of my roof or of my house like probably halfway in toward the middle there are no drips at all nothing so nothing's getting through the dragon scale it's still a little bit of drips toward the middle of the house where I haven't done it yet but they they seem to be going very well and now I'm at the point where you know I started real wide and it's getting smaller and smaller so now my rows around are significantly smaller than when I started so it's kind of accelerating even though I have to climb higher I think it's still accelerate anyway I haven't I haven't worked on it in a in a bit that sounds like a great Christmas present to yourself it is a great Christmas present because you know I'm I'm just gonna tell the truth right now she came over to grab the kids and she's like hey can you take a look at my boat motor because she she has this really cool well this really cool pedal boat that I built years ago and then she put well okay I put it on but she she did she found the parts and you know got them here and everything she got some batteries solar panels a charge controller for the batteries and a like a trolling motor and then came over you know and got me to put it all on this little pedal boat so now she has a powered pedal boat kind of like mine but not it's cool no it is actually pretty cool because hers has batteries so she can drive in the dark although I think with my leg power I can still beat her even if she's on her motor anyway so this morning she came over and it's like you know I need to get my my propeller a little deeper in the in the water can you take a look so I went out you know looked in screwed around with it for 10 or 15 minutes and you know got got the motor to go a little bit deeper in the water and adjusted some other stuff to make some little improvements because whenever I see something I can improve I have to do it and I'm like there hey your propellers deeper it should make fewer bubbles the splash less you this is great right and then she's immediately like well can you move my batteries I like why why do you need your batteries move well I just want to move because it's kind of uncomfortable driving with them there and at that point I was just like you know what you're just gonna have to suffer for a couple more days in in in this agonizing discomfort of your your batteries just being where you don't want them to be and yeah because I wasn't about to go out there and climb around our boat and move these giant batter that pull the wires off and everything so anyway yeah for the rest of today my Christmas present to myself is no the answer is no I'm not I'm not doing anything I'm not fixing anyone's thing or readjusting or no the answers no I'll I'm gonna do my own thing I'm gonna work on my own stuff and I'm gonna do this oh and actually DeShane it was asking me like like three minutes before I came on here to do a thing and that's when I was like no I have a thing I have to go do and you know that so you guys kind of gave me an excuse good good work although it's already saying no anyway anyway okay happy birthday Jesus my Christmas is usually spent alone I'm glad to have the JMO show to keep me company what better than to spend some time with a kindred spirit like Jamie well that's great ah classic dude Mike that's who we're talking about yeah yeah I was thinking maybe I shouldn't do one of these today because it's Christmas everyone's gonna be with a family and I was like no no we're gonna do this of course I'll do this I also tried to upload some extra videos which I haven't always done during the holidays but these holidays I'm feeling I'm feeling extra better extra good compared to the last few years and I think it's just because of how well the last the last couple years have gone like I moved into my house this year I think earlier I've been I've been in my house roughly a year and oh man just like my my general happiness content to the level has been rising like the whole year and my my stress stress level has been decreasing the whole year because for a while I was just getting getting too stressed out you know just yeah but then man I'm loving I'm loving this this is going really well so yeah maybe that's why I felt like during the holidays I could I could upload a couple extra videos so I uploaded one this morning and okay I missed the machine build videos really liked the dozer well I've got some more machine building videos right now I'm working on this lumber mill I started the lumber mill and it is going it is going really well so on the lumber mill the hardest parts to build are like everything between the motor and the blade like basically connecting the motor to the blade without it all vibrating and stuff and having a good connection and that the blade connected in such a way that the it's not you know you can get you can get deep into the blade on the wood so it can do pretty deep cuts and all that all this stuff but yeah I guess I made three videos of that one one I still have to upload the second one I uploaded today but yeah that that whole that whole section went together so smoothly and it's it's great I think it might be because it's something I've been thinking about for like I know a year and a half or so before I actually did it usually usually when I spend a lot of time thinking about something before actually get to it when I actually get to it my brain has already figured out all the details and then I just do it and everything comes out great and actually one of the pieces there where I mounted the motor to the shaft the motor thing and the shaft of the the blade are not the same size so I had to lathe out a hole to fit it over the shaft there I did that on the lathe and uh yeah man oh I love machining and I only I just did that on the small lathe too I have two lathes a small one and a big one I didn't want to turn the big one on because it's been cloudy but it was it was sunny the day I was doing that and I was like well I should kind of let the batteries recharge in my house but I really want to do this maybe I can do it on the small lathe which doesn't use that much power yeah but I'm looking forward to using the big lathe and then the milling machine when I get some more electricity right now blue skies sunny oh it's beautiful so yeah more machines oh and I'm also working on the you know the shark slicer making the the pedals okay so I haven't worked on the the pedals for the shark slicer in a week in case anyone's wondering why I slowed down on that a bit or why it's taking so long because when I did the pedals I fiberglassed them and it's still sticky and to get rid of the sticky surface on fiberglass you can put it out in the sun because the sun cures it the UV light cures the the resin faster so it'll it'll you know harden it make it not sticky anymore but it's been so cloudy that it hasn't happened so today it's sunny and I put the the two pedal parts out in the sun so hopefully they're becoming unsticky so that I can you know finish off the pedal part I'm pretty excited about that having just a modular set of pedals and you know the pedals and the paddle wheel and everything just all on this kind of lightweight thing I can put it out because then I can take it out and put it in another boat if I done that all like right from the beginning I only would have had to make like maybe two pedal power things and just I could just switch them to whatever boat I want to use that day let's see build Tesla ambient energy collector I know you're talking about I could do that I'm actually this has anyone done that and is uh using it and you know kind of like using it on a practical basis and have some feedback feedback on how that's going your dandy bell is waiting for tomaters whereas tomaters we know how those things can snowball I'm not sure which things you're talking about snowballing but it might have been the uh to asking me to help we all want to hear about your bridge oh my bridge okay I'm gonna I'm gonna get some video of the bridge you know I just I've been I've been nervous about showing it just because there there's so many there are a lot of local people who watch my videos now and when I first got here I was just like yeah I can show anything and I don't have to worry about it but then people start saying like things like oh are you allowed to be doing that do you have your permits are you supposed to be doing that and I'm always like this I'm pretty sure I'm I don't need anything for this I'm fine with this but I don't know all the rules like I don't know all the laws and everything so I never know when I'm gonna stumble across some rule I'm not supposed to break so I'm always nervous about showing any kind of landscaping even like gardening things I'm like I can dig a hole right and plant a tree like is there do I I don't I'm not supposed to ask for I don't know though and you know there are people grumpy sons of who just look for trouble it's always Americans I'm sorry but you it's always Americans you know like what why why are you doing that like America like it's supposed to be the land of the free and you guys are just not not doing it you're you're supposed to be doing something else you're supposed to be doing one thing but a lot of you're doing the other thing yeah got another mosquito and I wouldn't even say the majority of people or anything it's just enough people that it's causing a problem kind of dragging everyone down so yeah kind of stop it anyway I'll try to get a a shot on my bridge this week do your older kids remember miss snow I asked them once I asked them recently and my 12 year olds like yeah I kind of remember snow and she described the scene when we were in the backyard of someone's place and she was playing on a swing or something but the rest of them don't I mean my my uh 10 year old when we came here she was like a one one and a half something like that one or two I don't know she doesn't remember snow though only my oldest one we loved your spirit and motivation your abc virtues are excellent well I love them too oh wait shadow man so you asked a question way at the beginning oh can you ask it again I don't want to scroll up because I'm gonna lose track of where I am I'm stoked for more build videos yeah I've been dealing with serious mental burnout oh okay classic dude Mike let me get my I feel like I need to get a pad of paper and my spectacles and you can have a seat on the couch lay down get comfortable I've been dealing with serious mental burnout discovered I have ADHD with a side order of OCD and depression haha you really help thanks for the inspirations you mean oh well great you know I think like you could you could just about diagnose like everybody with ADHD and OCD now because and and some depression and I think it I think a lot of it has to do with well with with screens like like tablets and phones and you know the internet um you know when you're always dealing with with things in real life like particularly if you're in nature you always get this reasonable feedback and you never get instant gratification it's not a thing I mean I shouldn't say it's never a thing you know you could be walking through the forest and just stumble upon a patch of raspberries and it's like oh oh my gosh instant gratification instant raspberries but generally speaking when you're dealing with the natural world there is no instant gratification like anything that is gratifying is a long-term benefit even if you stumble across some some raspberries like you're not just getting instant you're not you're just getting instant gratification it is gratifying instantly but then it also gives you you know it fuels your body it gives you nutrients and stuff it's a it's a longer lasting thing but now we have this world where people spend so much time looking at screens and uh you know it's just like everything's instant gratification that has no lasting effect if anything it ends up dragging you down so so it's it's just really really messing with people's heads and you know I noticed this I got the internet in my house I don't know months ago four months ago now I don't know how long it's been three months ago I don't know but there's a definitely a difference between my life before I got the internet in my house and after I installed it and I was I was hesitant to install it for this exact reason because now it's like I have instant access to instant gratification I can go on the internet and just like it's sort of like pulling a slot machine oh what's what's going to be here today is there something fun or something interesting something I can learn there might be something for me give me something and then you know it's like almost always just disappointment disappointment disappointment because it's like oh that wasn't anything well let me keep looking uh it's not it I keep like and you know it's a lot of a lot of disappointment and just nothing nothing of real value so uh I do do a pretty good job of turning the internet off and like only using it once in a while but even then like if I'm if I'm here by myself in the evening and I go on the internet for an hour after I'm usually just like yeah I just kind of like feel a little bit less good than before so I you know I think I think a lot of depression and OCD and ADHD comes from just that that change of environment where we have this this weird this weird portal into this unfulfilling world and not that I'm saying you know nothing can ever be fulfilling on the internet but the internet is full of unfulfilling disappointing stuff that's just you know instant gratification trying to get money from you you know nothing nothing of value is coming your way you're just giving your attention and getting kind of garbage in return for the most part of course there is occasionally a little speck of gold that that that kind of keeps you coming back I remember when the internet first started like the I call it the golden age of the internet where it was there were no there was no money on the internet like there were no businesses or anything it was just all people's personal websites and I had a personal website back then and you could go online and you could find like information about anything like things the government didn't want you finding information about like like how they're ruining ruining the economy or even like dangerous things or I mean you could find anything it was great maybe I shouldn't say anything but no now you now you go type something in and you just get all the all the business stuff and all the stuff the search engines want you to find yeah it's it's not nearly as good as it used to be uh permite rule people are tiresome oh permit rule people are tiresome yes people who are like it's not even just the permits and the rules people it's the people who are in your face about it like are you supposed to be doing that are you allowed to do that because you look like you're having more fun than me and you're enjoying yourself so I I feel like since I'm doing nothing and sitting around on my butt I need to interfere with you because I have nothing to do you know so I'm just gonna let the the devil play with my hands and and try to mess with you because you're busy doing something so you're not you're not gonna be defending yourself you know ah god those people are the worst but you know they're there hi from Minnesota long time follower thanks for sharing with us well you're welcome motor solo modular boat pedal power sounds like a great idea maybe a universal pedal electric power modular power unit for land and sea yeah I mean well the the electric power thing is a little bit bigger and more involved because you know solar panels it's like it takes up a huge area so making that modular is a little bit trickier but like a battery powered thing I can just have like well I do actually have a little a little outboard motor it's a little quarter horsepower outboard motor and it takes like drill batteries but it doesn't go super far I mean it throws a decent distance like he would drive me from here to the Shana's house no problem but I don't I never need battery power for that distance anyway it's not long enough the time the time I always want electrical power it's like when I'm going like hours somewhere you answered it oh shadow man sir great oh is the question about the dragon scales okay I did answer good turn off all notifications on your phone don't let it keep interrupting your life that is an excellent yeah man uh if you have a phone I don't I don't have any phone and I love it I love not having a phone oh my gosh and I see other people like it's just like like every time I see other people they're they're spending like half their time just like just like this and I'm watching them I'm just like man half of your half of your day is just sucked into this thing and you're just like oh I gotta poke the buttons and and look at everything and man it's and you don't get anything out of it maybe I shouldn't say you don't get anything out of it but there are so many better things to do than just pay attention to this thing so uh yeah if you can if you can live life without a phone I highly recommend it it's amazing although I do realize the utility of a phone and you know what get really like the the the fancy smartphone gets like the the dumb brick phone that has the the numbers that you push that does phone calls I would if I had a phone that's the kind of phone I would get I don't need a walking internet machine I can take with me everywhere yeah our tech really plays havoc on our dopamine receptors it is curious if there have been will be epigenetic consequences while there are some pretty huge consequences and the part of the problem is like people putting things on the internet know about how to screw with your dopamine how to get you addicted you know the the internet has become like like the casino like people go on there and it's like let me pull the lever and see if I get anything and you know it's sort of like if you go on facebook you know I never go to the the facebook main page I I mean occasionally it happens actually but I always just go to my messages it's the only thing I ever check so I don't actually go to the first facebook main page because if you go to the facebook main page it's like you see something oh someone wrote a thing maybe it's interesting oh no that wasn't interesting oh wait there's another one maybe that one's interesting ah that's nothing I care about okay let me go a little more a little more a little more and you can just it's like pulling the the lever on the slot machine endlessly like maybe I'll get something that's good maybe I'll get something that's good maybe I'll get something that's good and man it really messes with people's heads very addictive there have been two interesting things about hydrofoil recently really commercially available private electric hydrofoil company I don't care about that I don't stuff myself although I might want to look at their designs and you know see what they're building and separately a remote controlled toy hydrofoil both use sonic question wait sonic sensors to detect wave height huh that's funny I would want something that doesn't need electronics to detect wave height I would just want to do that myself like if it's if it's too wavy obviously not use them or or maybe I can ride up and down the way I don't know I'm not I'm not on hydrofoils right now I have other things I recently sent you a video of pink floyd welcome to the machine it's post-apocalyptic but there's a giant robot in it saving the last of the living trees he looks a little like your a little a little like you very cool ooh a robot that looks like me I did get that message I didn't click on the the link the pink floyd video because it was like two in the morning because a lot of times I wake up at like two in the morning and then you know I'll check some messages or whatever and go back to sleep uh it's it's kind of convenient because then I can take my baby and put her on the potty and have her go pee and then I I'm sure she's not going to go pee in her bed which very rarely happens so I'm happy about that but um well I guess one of the other reasons I sometimes wake up at two in the morning is because my baby will jump on me for like five minutes because she's just like hey I'm I'm awake for half an hour and I'm going to jump on you and then she falls asleep on my chest and it's so adorable and cute and you snuggle and then she falls asleep anyway um but yeah I'm going to watch the video later the interrupt of a notification yeah or like a tweet or whatever strengthens reward pathways that keep you coming back yeah so this is talking about the notifications on your phone totally turn off notifications on your phone this is why almost always I turn off the internet at my house like and I don't I don't have anything that gives me notifications I just want it turned off so that every time I walk by my computer I'm not like oh maybe I should just turn on real quick and check because now it's like oh no no I have to turn on the power for the internet wait a few seconds I kind of wish it took like 10 minutes to connect but it's it's it works a little bit too well it's only a few seconds and then I have to check you know just having an extra step a layer of barrier between me and the internet is nice to have because it keeps me from just like oh let me just check for a second because you know what happens when you go on the internet just for a second yeah for like three hours I want a brick dumb phone that has a battery that lasts a week plus I want a brick dumb phone that I have to plug in that doesn't even have the battery that way I leave it in one place and I if I go anywhere I don't take it with me I do realize the utility of having a communication device on your person anywhere you go but it's just it's just it's just too much you know I think I think it's I think overall it's more useful to not have a communication device with you all the time because it forces you to plan better and you know just uh yeah like like think about what you're doing your day and plan it out better and figure out where you're going and all that stuff it also helps you uh it also makes it so you don't hang out with people who are unreliable because unreliable people always carry the phone around so they can cancel I wasn't supposed to be there in five minutes or 20 minutes ago uh sorry I couldn't make it uh have uh my my my my mom died oh no wait they know my mom my grandma died or some my dog died uh yeah I couldn't make it okay back you know that's but people who don't have phones tend to be much more reliable like they say they're going to be somewhere generally through there hydrofoils are useless when transporting cargo that's why I haven't gotten into hydrofoils yeah I mean it would be great to go one way but then on the way back when I have cargo I'd have to pull the hydrofoils out of the out of the water and then they become more cargo so I find it I just feel like it's just going to be better to just not have hydrofoils and spend the extra hour hour and a half in the first part of the trip and not deal with them on the part where I can't use them I understand why you don't mess with them yeah so maybe at some point when I'm doing less cargo like you know maybe when I get my whole island straightened out the way I want it and I don't need any more cement or rocks or whatever I don't need any more cargo heavy stuff then I might want to make a little personal maybe like a one or two seater either hydrofoil or I think I want to do uh like a a flying machine a ground effect machine that's I mean of course I'll see you when I get to that point what I end up deciding to do but if you ask me right now I'm more interested in making a ground effect vehicle like a it's a kind of airplane that just flies low across the ground or across the water because if you're if you're right close to the water as your wings push down the the air the air kind of bunches up against the ground and make it puffier you know yeah this is a scientific term for it if you're when you're closer to the ground the air is puffier so it's easier to fly a lot like righto a skim across the ground and I see birds doing this all the time it's it's really cool seeing uh pelicans that's like my kid's favorite bird but there's huge wingspan and they fly and they'll just like come like right down to the bottom of the water and they'll get to the point where the tips of their wings and they you know their wings are kind of like this the tips of their wings will kind of touch a little bit here and there and just kind of skim across and and then every once in a while they'll flop up a bit get a bit more speed and then go right back down because it's really efficient to fly right across you know just just barely above the water a wave height sensor sounds very complex might be better spent detecting pitch of boat yeah I don't want to have a wave height sensor that sounds like it's just it's just something asking to break you know you have to fix merry bary christmas sous champion oh champion so I mentioned it because it was surprising that two separate sources suggest that wave height sensors were necessary not necessary schmo necessary some people just want to mind other people's business miserable people yeah it's it's terrible it's terrible when other people just want to get in everyone else's business and not take care of anything of their own that's that's one of the it's one of the major problems in the world today like garbage obviously just like wasting maybe that goes in garbage just just wasting stuff in general and people just starting starting crap unnecessarily getting in other people's business saying you know what you should be doing something else because I feel like it you should be doing something else it's like no you worry about get yourself straightened out get yourself straightened out and and that's the thing the people who are always in your face they're always a disaster because they're not paying attention to themselves they're not they're not fixing themselves or improving themselves they're they're just trying to climb up your butt you know good morning Jamie 18 below here in the Midwest yes Celsius you know when you get that far down in the negatives it doesn't really matter if it's negative Celsius or Fahrenheit what does it overlap at like negative 40 or something so I guess it matters still a little bit but still negative 18 Celsius or Fahrenheit is cold please show outside where it's beautiful let's go let's go outside let me just connect my little power thing all right we're going for a walk I'll try to keep steady so we don't we don't get too pixely of course when you know when I move around the whole screen has to keep up and the pixels can't keep up okay let's uh switch our camera to the forward-facing camera open my hands in the way oh let's see what we got here oh look at that nice sunny day oh let me just so there's there's the zombie chopper that's the most fun boat to drive because it's fast and it's really got a really comfortable seat I like the pedals doesn't hold much cargo but it's really really fun to drive and then up here oh blue sky look at that and uh yeah totally sunny this here is the mold for the fiberglass domes uh it's just being stored right here this this mold here leaning up against the tree well it's two molds that one is the mold for the bottom of one of my boats and this mold here this one on this side is the mold for the top of like almost all my boats like even this one this is the the same top as well that boat over there behind the all the green stuff anyway you want to see a little bit more let's see what else is there to look at out here I can't go too far away because we'll start losing uh signal maybe I can get a shot of my bridge hold on hold on hold on okay oh let's see it's hard for me to see the screen because it's too dark yeah I think my bridge is right back yeah right there here's the bridge it's got the dirt coming up going right over and then it stops it's almost up to that other land over there try to keep that steady so visible and then down here I've got a papaya tree which looks like it's doing pretty good which is great because this big papaya tree has no partner it needs at least one other papaya tree to be able to make fruit and right now I've got that one and then there are two two little ones down here oh and this is an oregano plant otherwise known as oregano delicious this is the the big leaf oregano and then inside these little things are pepper plants which seem to be surviving the crabs have not eaten them now that I put these things on them I can see I can see a leaf of one thing in here that might be a watermelon I think this one has watermelon in it anyway here's my my banana trees one of those actually probably both of those will make bananas pretty soon I'm not sure when but soonish and then up here I've got coconuts I eat a coconut pretty much every day I had one this morning all right let's go let's go back inside and uh oh here let me let me show you some of my coconuts sorry I'm moving around I know when I move around it starts getting that pixely but here's my coconut from this morning a bunch of it I used in uh what's it called in some cereal that the kids and I had but the rest of that coconut there I'm going to use to make sourdough let me see if there's anything else I should show while I'm out here walking around well here's my let me turn this around again here's the parts for the lumber mill and the saw blade goes on here that was the first lumber mill video I got that on this piece here did not originally fit on the shaft so I had to root out the the middle of it carve out the middle like an eighth of an inch to get to fit on there and now that this fits there my motor which is right over there hold up let's go so this motor here now bolts onto it so this piece matches that other one over there and uh yeah this motor is great I uploaded a video of us fixing this motor this morning my daughter helped us out a lot which was really nice weird oh I'm trying to turn my camera around hold on okay back to me uh that's a golf cart motor and it was at one point on a sailboat with an electric drive and the guy was replacing it and I bought it from him and I was using it for a boat drive for a while and then I wasn't doing anything with it for a while um for a few years it was just on the boat on my what's it called on the shark slicer my biggest boat my cargo boat which is the one I'm doing the pedals for right now but it was sitting on there for a few years while I was building my house and everything and not paying attention to it and then when I went to check it because I figured that's going to be the best motor for the lumber mill because it's it's pretty high power it's higher power motor I think it's the highest power motor I have actually oh no I have one higher power but that one's too huge but it's it's a good motor and has the right voltage to run it right off solar panels and everything but it's been sitting there for a while and I brought it in and tested it and it didn't work and I don't even know what exactly was wrong with it but I ended up taking the whole thing apart and you know cleaning all the parts and getting a whole bunch of rust off it and stuff like that putting it back together and then it then it worked perfectly so that's the motor for my for my lumber mill and that's been my most what's what what's it called my most successful repair technique for machines and things like that it's like take it totally apart clean all the parts put it all back together like most of the time it's like suddenly works and it's like I don't even know what the problem was maybe some dirt was blocking something or or some some smudge with short shorting some circuit like I don't know but you know take something apart clean it put it back together often it ends up working right as long as you put it back together right of course Jeff Kruppke Merry Christmas hello Jimmy Slick 172 uh hey Jamie Merry Christmas from the other Jamie that you don't know yet I stopped by your cabal when I was island shopping in my panga a few months ago but you were not around huh let me think so are you are you gonna move here let me know if any cool islands or properties go up for sale well they don't really go up for sale around here the way at least the the way I've always got land around here is more like I let people know that I'm looking for land and if they kind of don't hate me then often people will just you know like three weeks later some will show up and you're like well I've got this land you don't want to buy it and then I'm either like yes or no or whatever uh but there isn't there isn't much around here that's like listed for sale and if you if you if you buy some land that's listed for sale it's going to be through some real estate agent it's going to cost a lot more than if you buy it directly from the owner you know but uh Jimmy Slick well send me it send me a message like send me an email we can talk and uh yeah it's weird that if you stop by and no one is around but yeah I mean I'm not always here what will be the power source for the sawmill yeah oh you mean the power power source I'm thinking I'm thinking a bunch of solar panels and I want to run it directly off solar panels like the solar panels that were on my household before that are just kind of stacked over there um I'll I'll have to make a thing where I can put them all up maybe on top of a guest house so this is kind of what I'm thinking either that or well the safest place to put them would be on top of the roof of this building because no one's going up there to steal anything it's too high but it's it's also not the easiest place to connect a bunch of solar panels because it's a big concrete dome and the solar panels are flat and you know I don't want to I don't want to put any holes in the roof and make leaks or anything so it would have to be connected on the surface anyway so I'm thinking I want to make a different building so this whole this whole lumber mill bridge guest house thing is all connected so I'm taking I'm flattening out a spot up at the top of the hill so I can put a put like well I'm calling it a guest house I don't know it was just another building but I I do imagine guests will stay there at some point so anyway I'm flattening out the ground up there for a guest house or whatever and it's going to have solar panels on it that will power the lumber mill and I may just have the lumber mill up there and I'm all the dirt I'm taking off the hill up there to flatten it out and I'm not I'm not digging deep or anything it's just like leveling it out but it's pretty big area so there's a decent amount of dirt so all that dirt I'm using to make a path between this island and the other little island which you can walk to it's just it's muddy and you know it's during high tide you get your feet wet so I'm making a path and that's where I'm making the bridge to the other island just so I have a dry way to get to that island back and then what was the other thing yeah that's yeah and the and the lumber mill will be powered by the solar panels on the the guest house right hmm you mean there's no island Zillow I don't know there's like when I was looking for an island so this is like 10 years ago almost now I did look online a whole bunch and ultimately like I looked online at a lot of different places like Craigslist real estate places you know I specific island website selling places which always had the worst prices for everything but yeah like like Craigslisty kind of things like classifies the stuff I'd scour through them and all the stuff but the the way that I've bought all the land that I have now and the way that I found it to be the best is just to to go to the place where you want to live like be in the area get to know people you know kind of like mention that you're looking for land and hope that someone has land for you and you might be surprised at how many people do like I've about five years ago I started turning down land like islands and other things I was just like I can't buy anymore because I have enough to deal with you know it's just it's just me and I have to make sure I maintain all these properties I mean I don't have to do a ton to them or anything but I have to pay attention to them and when my kids get a little older you know they'll be able to take over little little pieces of land and stuff if they want but right now it's just me so I have to start turning down a whole bunch of land actually but it's not the kind of thing where someone would offer me that and I could just be like well I know someone else who might want to buy it because they'll be like well I like you but I don't know if I just want to sell it to anybody so yeah you'll get much better deals if you actually know the people and you get to know the area and all that but if you just want to buy something yeah just go find some real estate guys or whatever um when she asked when she asked what's rpm I was encouraged by her enthusiasm to help refurbish that motor great video okay so yeah this is referring to the motor I was just showing and hopefully that all showed up and it wasn't too pixely but uh yeah one of my kids asked what rpm means because I was I was telling what the specs of the motor is and I explained you know revolution revolutions per minute so it spins this many times every minute and uh yeah my kids the thing with kids is like kids are naturally curious like human beings are born with a lot of curiosity it's not until they get stuck in school and and told sit here and don't move or you're getting trouble that you know the curiosity kind of gets beaten out of them so like if there's one thing you could do like for your own kids if you have kids or a niece or nephew or uncle or whatever not an uncle you are the uncle but if you have kids in your life answer their questions even if they're ridiculous and stupid like answer their questions encourage them to be curious because they will really appreciate it for one and they're going to learn a lot and it's it's just a really good thing for them and also let you really bond with them like I bond with my kids just by by this one rule I have which is answer any question they have they ask me anything answer it like never I never say I shouldn't say I never say I'm sure it has happened at some point when I was just busy or whatever but generally speaking I pretty much never say I'm too busy I don't want to answer this question oh my god stop asking why or what you know I don't do any of that my kids ask a question I answer they say why I answer that they say why I answer that they can say why until they're blue in the face and I will answer every time until it gets to the point where it's like well because that's just the way the universe was it is you know because at some point you know you always get to a point where it's like that's just that's just how it is like I don't know um can't stay but I just wanted to say Merry Christmas to you and the family hope everyone is happy and healthy take care things are going pretty well I do have a friend who is not feeling very well she's she's at the hospital right now she's she's kind of sick I'm hoping she's okay so everyone else though is good and I don't I'm hoping she's it's not anything serious hopefully is everything is fine but uh you know she was she was feeling pretty bad and had to go to the hospital hopefully that's okay though but everyone else is fine everyone in my family is super healthy and running around like cheetahs and having a having a great time and you know dishinga drives me nuts but that's that's just normal you know okay all right dark dark rocker have a have a good day too bad you can't always just buy all the land people want to sell you yeah I mean like I can't just keep buying land one because I would run out of money and the other one is that if I just keep buying land at some point I won't be able to pay attention to it all and what if someone like squats on one of my pieces of land and just like takes it over and they're there for like four months before I notice and at that point they'd be like dug in and I gotta be like oh man I gotta get rid of this person you know I have enough land right now that from my island like if I go up to my roof and look out I can see all my pieces all my little island and all my all my land and everything so I can keep track of it I can go check on everything and you know I can cut the grass and whatever um but yeah if it was if it was too much I just wouldn't be able to handle handle it all now when I was originally when I first came here my thought was kind of like maybe I can just buy more land so that people who want to come and live here they could just buy the land from me and I would just have this you know this surplus of land that people could come buy directly from me and I'd just sell it at the same price maybe maybe mark it up just enough that it covers you know that the transaction cost because you know when you go to the place and do the paperwork and everything you guys like okay that'll be a hundred dollars or whatever but anyway you know I was thinking I could do that but the process of of building a community has been very slow it's going fine but it is very slow um right now I have my my latest what do you call it person person injected into the community who's in who's come into the community he's great I love him oh dude don't come over and start being like oh you love me oh you love me all right all right relax no I think he's really cool and yeah things are going really well with him I actually have to ask him about some composting of of composting of grass and stuff like that because I'm doing a bunch of composting up at the top of my hill uh trying to make trying to build some good soil because I I want to grow watermelons and amongst other things but you know I love how love me some big melons and watermelons I want I want to have some watermelons and he's he's been composting on the island where he's staying and he says it's going really well and he's done all this research and stuff and like I could go and do a bunch of internet research or I can just ask him you know what is what has worked because you're in the same place you know the same environment same dirt what's working well so I need to get some information about that from him and that's like that's my favorite thing maybe not my favorite things one of my favorite things about having a community of cool people is like the the thing I want to make this community of cool interesting helpful valuable people just just around me not in a commune not that I'm responsible for but they just live close by uh yeah that that's exactly the thing so I can go over to him and be like hey can you can you help me out with this you've been doing experiments with this you know what are your results and he can come over and be like hey man you know what what kind of boat works well here or something you know we just share information like that and then also you know help each other with stuff and stuff like that like uh a week or so ago I went I went on a trip to go up a river just for something and he was like well can I come I'm like yeah you can come let's go and then we went on the boat and drove a couple hours to this river and then we we jumped in the river and oh man like jumping in the ocean is amazing I love jumping in the ocean but when you always swim in the ocean getting into fresh water it feels different it's like refreshing and this this river is is fresh water and it's clear and it's cold and we got in it's just like oh it's so oh oh yeah it was just like oh so so cooling me off because we'd been pedaling for you know a couple hours to get there oh it's amazing and you know it's really cool to have a friend to go do that kind of stuff with and you know he's a dude he's a guy he's like I want to do some man stuff so we can you know go into the jungle and trim a trail or something with machetes and stuff like that you know I haven't I haven't had a friend that can do that kind of stuff with in a long time so it's really it's really awesome having him around even though we don't hang out that often because you know he's busy working a lot on his stuff and I'm working a lot on my stuff but yeah it's really cool that we can hang out and do do cool cool guy stuff together like going to a river and cool it off okay let's see too bad you can't always oh yeah it's by just surround your solar panels with bullet ant nests oh so yeah there's there are these things called bullet ants which are apparently insanely painful if you're bitten by them I have never been bitten by one but supposedly they live in this area I've never seen any on my island I've never seen one actually I've never seen any but I know people who are like yeah I've got those on my land gotta stay away from them yeah Emperor Jamo I don't know what Emperor Jamo is are you able to get better internet connections since it would be awesome for us to see you not pixelated Merry Christmas to all your family am I pixelated right now I thought I was doing all right we do have pretty good internet the thing is with a you know with a with a live connection the connection has to be pretty fast and that the faster connection I just heard something on the walkie-talkie to Shayna just giving the notification that she's home which is really nice with the kids and everyone's safe anyway I can get faster internet if we pay more but I don't I don't want to pay more money I feel like I feel like it's at a pretty good level I don't need to be like super high resolution like perfect pixels seeing my nostril hairs and everything you know I'm not I'm not running a Joe Rogan show here or anything I'm a guy who's on an island out in the ocean I feel like having this level in an internet is it's pretty darn good but yes I could get faster internet can you feel the difference in the buoyancy between the fresh and salt water after having spent so much time in ocean yes as a matter of fact when we went to the at the river in the freshwater I got in and I was immediately like whoa I am way more sinky than normal because out in the ocean you know I can I can lay back as long as I have a a decent amount of air in my lungs I can just float you know laying on my back pretty easily like I don't even have to like I can do it pretty easily but then in the freshwater I went to do that I just sank and I was like oh wow I really have to like inflate my balloons to to float in the freshwater yeah it makes a huge difference it was kind of nice though because in the salt water you know you take a deep breath so you can so you can dive down you end up floating yeah like try harder to stay at the bottom like you know divers always have weights with them and stuff but in the freshwater I I sink like a rock man it's really easy to swim to the bottom you should make an underwater camera on your travels to town oh take it under oh I think it's supposed to be take but it says make uh so we can see what's in the ocean I do have an underwater camera it's it's it's a GoPro but it's one of the old ones with no screen on it so I end up like I've used it a few times but I almost never use it because like you can't see what it's seeing I need a screen because it's one thing to you know turn it on and trust that it's getting something but it's it's so much more useful to have the screen and be like okay now I can get my shot lined up that I want you know but I do have one right over there um yeah and I've been oh I should write that down um get some video I wanted to do a a lap around my island in the water just showing what's around uh underwater I was thinking about doing that because every now and then uh during my morning exercises instead of doing some running part I'll just go outside jump out into the water at my beach swim all the way around the island get back to the beach and come out so I could take a camera with me on that one day oh odd question oh an odd question these are my favorites if anyone else has an odd question go for it I mean nothing too taboo or anything but odd question okay bear with me have you noticed being away from population having some beneficial effects to your creativity conscious experience dreams etc or simply practical effects like less noisy well well I definitely noticed that being away from you know largely populated areas it makes it much easier to focus on what I'm doing because you know there aren't constantly people telling me you can't do that you can't you know I guess I guess the biggest the biggest benefit of being away from the populated areas is that there isn't constantly someone saying you're not allowed to do that I'm going to call the cops on you because and then you just like wait is this even illegal and then you have to go like look and check oh no this is totally illegal and then sometimes the person calls the police on you anyway and then they show up and it's like oh hi police and the police are like well we got a call we need to check it out I see what you're doing is all fine and then you know you just waste like two hours of your day talking to the police about you know this is what I'm doing and then finally they leave and oh okay everything's fine everything's fine and it's like why why and then you know you just got to pay attention to this monkey on your back these people just being like all the time that's probably the biggest the biggest benefit of being away from all the the people because there's so many people just like what we were talking about earlier people just in your business in your face all the time like they have nothing to do so they want to mess up your doings so being being away from population like being on your own is it's so relaxing like I feel like there's so much I can do here that not that I couldn't do it in other places but I can just do it I don't have to worry about who's like who's who's checking on me who's looking who's paying attention and you know that the trying to get you in trouble for things is one thing but then there's also that well that's impossible you can't do that or it's unreasonable or stupid or you shouldn't be doing that and it's just like constantly let me just put my ear plugs on can you people I'll just shut up and go away because I'm trying to do something and this comes down to that saying you know the person saying it can't be done should never interrupt the person who's doing it but it happens all the time so unless you know you're not you're not near people and I guess this this is the downside of of having a youtube channel you know I'm totally away from people I can do basically whatever I want here you know no one I don't have to answer to anyone but you know if I'm showing it on youtube videos I always have to think a little bit to myself what what should I show and what I shouldn't show because there's some things that maybe I shouldn't show because I don't know I don't like someone might just be like trying to get up in my business and I don't know yeah so yeah it's really beneficial to to get away from negative people because then you can really put your put your mind into that creative mode and you don't have to be defensive you don't have to use that part of your concentration on blocking out the stupidity and then you know all the mingling and the trolls and crap like you can just instead of putting up those shields you can take all that energy and just focus totally on what you're doing and it's it's really good when you can totally focus a hundred percent on your creative process and everything it's like your your whole spirit can be focused on a thing it's great uh the connection is much better than a year ago anyway oh good star Lincoln option there I don't know your video streaming is at max headroom quality very appropriate oh that is beautiful yes max headroom about how much money did it cost you in the beginning to move to Panama well yet if you consider all the traveling we did to find this place I mean I don't know it was it was a it was a fair amount of money because we flew down to Chile and drove up and down all up and down Chile and then we were on our way to Nicaragua but then we stopped here on the way and you know all this is you know staying in hostels and you know getting on buses and airplanes and trains you know it's all like money was just like going like five figures definitely like well into five figures but then it probably cost about ten thousand dollars to get residency here for my whole family and that included you know all the traveling because then there was a bunch of traveling we all had to go to Panama City to pick up the our residency cars we all had to go to David to pick up the temporary ones before that they had to you know pay this person and that person it was just like it's just like you know immigration stuff like nickel and diamonds to death although it's not really nickel and diamonds it's more like four hundred dollars here eight hundred dollars here and then next thing you know it's like yeah i'm i'm like getting close to like ten thousand dollars here by the time it was done yeah i don't know it's it depends on what you include but that should give you an idea oh how long how much money did it cost you in the beginning to move to Panama with the families yeah that should give you a kind of an idea can't believe people call the cops on you so irritating yeah i mean no one's no one's called the the police have showed up not not anytime recently because i made friends with the police the time they showed up but the police did show up a few years ago and then also you know the like the environmental protection agency sort of except a bunch of them didn't have ID and i think they were fakers and they're just going around trying to get bribes from gringos because a lot of people are stupid and just are like hey how much would how much do i have to pay you to get you to go away here's 500 bucks and oh my god talking talking to stupid people about this like people who live around here i'm sorry but anyone who watches these videos and you do this is unbelievably stupid if people come to shake you down for bribes particularly if it's not even the real people like they don't have ID don't let anyone off a boat under your land unless they show you ID if they're saying they're an official if they're an official they need to have ID that says they're an official and i learned this the the one time they came and most of them didn't have ID and after that i was like from now on everyone has to have ID or they they have to leave anyway if you give those people a bribe to make them go away they're coming right back like next month next month after that it's like it's like if there's a if there's a hungry dog you don't feed it to get it to go away you feed it to come to you you feed it to tell it this is a safe place for you to come and get stuff this is your home this is you come here so if you have people and you feel like you have to give them hundreds of dollars to get them to go away that's not going to get them to go away they're just coming right back in a month or whatever if you really want them to go away the first time they show up you have to spend the hour or two just bull crapping with them but don't give them a cent waste make make them waste their time because then they'll be done next time they're doing the rounds you know seeing who who they can shake down for some money some easy cash they'll be like oh no let's not go to that place because last time we were there for like an hour and a half we got nothing no the waste of time let's let's go to the next guy because as soon as we pull up to the dock he's like whipping out his wallet so let's let's go to that guy's house all the people who are just whipping out their wallet ah you you're causing a problem you're making it you're making it so that going around shaking people down like that it's a successful business like there are people that this is what they do because it works so well because you're you're going along with it and you're making it harder for everyone else who's who's who's trying to do the right thing so stop doing that dumb crap don't be don't be dumb ah let's see I was confused by your motor video was it simply the polarity okay the motor I was confused by the motor video too so the motor at first uh you know the electric motor just wouldn't work and I tried on one power supply and then I was like that might not be strong enough so I tried on another power supply and I was like okay that one is definitely strong enough this motor should be spinning like crazy um and I looked at it and I was like I can't tell what's wrong but then I took it all apart and put it back together you know cleaned everything off and put it back together my my best guess is that maybe there were some some junk in there maybe even some iron filings or something that were shorting the the electricity between the brushes like so the the electricity wasn't actually getting through the the coils in the spinny part the spinny part the stator no the rotor but the spinny part the spinny electromagnets I don't care about the stupid fancy names I don't want to make one um that's my best guess is that like somewhere in there there was like some little pieces of metal or something that were shorting the electricity so it wasn't getting through where it needed to get so obviously if I cleaned it all off it would take out any any things like that and then you know it just it instantly worked as soon as I cleaned it off and put it back together so I'm thinking it must have just been something something like that or maybe maybe some maybe some dirt well I know that the part the brushes touch um it was really dirty around there so maybe the brushes didn't have good enough contact to get enough electricity through that that actually could have totally been it maybe the brushes yeah the where the brushes were touching was just too dirty and it wasn't letting enough electricity through I know it was letting some through because I could see a little spark but if it was blocking it was if it was causing enough resistance just not enough electricity to get through anyway either way I mean I could speculate on all kinds of things but you know the uh the magical technique of dismantle the whole thing clean it all really well put it all back together it worked so and that that works a lot of the time and yeah it wasn't the polarity the polarity was fine because it's a DC motor you can attach the electricity either way you know it it'll work either way seems like there is a lot of island wisdom that needs to be acquired through experience handling officials officials being one well I've only really had I mean it's it's not really island specific officials like I had much worse issues with officials in the United States when I lived on the mountain in Vermont when you know like the tax man showed up and just tripled my taxes just just like that and I was just like come on man what the and then you know there was there was actually a road that went almost all the way up to my property but it was gated and the local authorities wouldn't give me the key wouldn't let me drive to my own property some of them one guy actually did end up giving me a key he's like this is ridiculous you should you should have this key but then as soon as this other guy found out I had the key he made this huge thing and it was just you know it's just like dude why why like what is your problem and it was just this idiot who drinks too much and just you know the standard person who has nothing better to do than cause problems for other people and there are too many of those people who are like you know I'm gonna cause problems for you just because I can and that's always the people that's the most dangerous people in the world are the people who want to cause a problem for you just because they can you know it's like your neighbor who who sees you doing something in your yard like like planting a tree and they're just like I think I think that if I call the police they'll have to pay for a permit for that and it's like there's no reason to cause this problem this person a problem but the person sitting there is just like I think I can do it so I'm totally going to for no no reason other than just I can cause a problem so I'm gonna do it you know oh god I hate those people I'm sure that I'm sure that these people have been around like all throughout history and you know 4 000 years ago they just got murdered so there weren't many of them you know that that person gets clubbed in the head and that was the end of them but now free reign go ahead causes many problems you want for other people it's terrible but yeah here I haven't really had much much of any kind of issues with the officials the one time the police came by I actually know the police have come by two times and both times it was it was fine one time they came by because they're like oh you're new here you know we're just come come check out what's going on and they weren't actually looking for any problems they asked you know did you kind of need these mangroves and I was like no I haven't touched any mangroves and everyone knows that don't touch the mangrove don't cut the mangroves which totally makes sense because we cut the mangroves they the mangroves prevent erosion you want the mangroves but anyway then they were just very friendly after that and then that was when I first got here and then three years ago something like that the police came by it was a totally different place because you know years had gone by and they just basically came by to to check it was during the pandemic actually they came by to check that it actually owns the land where it was because they're like yeah some people have been going around squatting because the pandemic's happening so so people know that people can't travel so if there's an empty piece of land you know people are going on there and squatting and we had a conversation about it and they were friendly you know it wasn't wasn't any problem at all and I found that the the police here in Panama have always been very very friendly which is such a refreshing thing from being in in Canada or the United States where the you know the police even when they're not even when you're not doing anything they just look at you like what are you doing what are you doing what can I yell at you for are you gonna cross that street are you gonna cross there's no crosswalk are you gonna cross it's like come on dude back off and when I first got to Panama when I was in town one day not when I first got here it was after we we bought land and I started doing things I was in town and in someone's garbage there was this big satellite dish medium satellite dish I don't know it was a satellite dish and I was walking past it and I was like oh that's a perfectly good looking satellite dish I'm sure I can find some use for that and I looked at it and I was like well I can just pick that up and throw it in my boat and then I looked up and there was a there's a cop standing on the other side of the street just like hanging out in front of the store drinking something or whatever and I'm like all right so let me pick this up I put it over my shoulder and I start walking and I look at the cop and I'm like hey how's it going he's like hey man obviously he said in Spanish I'm like oh cómo estás you know like how's it going a brief conversation he's just like I don't care that you're carrying a piece of garbage whatever you know yeah the police here have always been very chill uh all the police I've met so it's it's actually really nice yeah who is it let's see okay this is back about the motor or was it the cleaning that freed something up inside the motor okay yeah I answered that I think and then you retracted a message oh whatever someone retracts the message I always think you're staying terrible stuff now but he was asking about the motor which I think I answered if there is a negative person in your life oh oh god yeah okay let's finish this sentence if there is a negative person in your life and you stuck with them it's better to agree with them mostly even if you don't then try to change their opinion are you yeah well if there's if you have a negative person in your life I don't think it helps to agree with them but I think you have to just agree to disagree like like for instance to Shayna and I we disagree on a lot of things and we just had to I mean this is this was a long time ago when this happened we just agreed you know we are different people we will disagree on a lot of things and that's fine it doesn't mean we can't be friends doesn't mean we can't be part of each other's lives because we are useful to each other's lives like there were there are a lot of ways that we are useful to each other's lives just we disagree on so many things it's not like like like we want to be in each other's personal lives or anything so we just agree to disagree and then it works out fine you know um except every time she wants me to agree with them oh no I pushed the wrong button oh come on we're messing with my thing here I used to have an old man oh no a next door who called the cost of me every time I ran my generator to power my well pump he's dead now yeah I probably you probably were not too upset the day he died but isn't that isn't that just it just drags everyone down when there are people like that who are just sitting around just waiting for something to complain about it's this it just makes life unnecessarily difficult and you know this is this is this is part of the downside of having a society that's that has enough technology and all this stuff to create so much abundance that most people don't really have to worry about their survival I don't really have to do anything I mean you could you could literally do nothing and just live off welfare and just just literally do nothing and then it gives you all this time to look for trouble and cause trouble you know the that's the downside of so much prosperity so much so you know creating so much value in society it's there there's definitely a big upside of having less and having people have to have to kind of like pay attention more and you know focus more on on their own well-being and what they're doing because then they have less time to cause problems for other people thank you for the revitalized oh come on thank you for the revitalized upload schedule as of lately the short update videos on the latest projects are fantastic bravo oh well great I'm glad it's going well I don't really have it I haven't had a schedule but yeah I've been you know I've been keeping up with some stuff and I think part of it is that now I'm building machines like you know I'm doing a bunch of digging but like you know I can only show like so many digging videos before it's just like oh here I am doing the exact same thing it's just going to take a long time but like when I'm building machinery it's like okay here's this piece which is interesting and here's the next piece which is also interesting you know every piece of it is different and interesting so yeah I am when I'm doing stuff like that I can I can I can make a lot more more videos old satellite dishes make great solar cookers I actually have some silver spray paint I was thinking about doing that spray glue and aluminum foil or mylar yeah that's if the if the spray paint doesn't work some people always feel they need to get the last word in oh god like yeah the same type of people probably never forgive and always need to get revenge even on the most minor thing yeah it's just such a waste of time and I remember when I was a kid you know I had to you know someone did so someone wronged me in somewhere I had to punch him back or I had to get revenge and get back but eventually I was like what a waste of time like there's so many other things I could do then then deal with this this idiot who's just just causing problems and yeah it's it's really weird that that there are so many people who choose of their own free will they choose to just put all their energy and time into this complete waste of time yeah just trying to get the last word trying to prove them right I'm gonna prove them right all the time you know like I'm just gonna talk all the time and try to try to make people feel dumb or make them feel worse here I'm here I'm sitting here talking but you know but like not not ever actually do anything it meant when you start when you start actually doing something real you realize it doesn't matter if you convince other people that you're right or wrong like when you do something real it's it's it's it's real it's like there's no denying that you did a cool thing and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks this is great I'm so excited to see how this the sawmill progresses I am too I'm really I'm really excited about the the lumber mill because I've been thinking about building it for you know kind of a long time you know I mentioned it in once a while and before I started it I kept thinking man I don't know how I'm gonna mount this this saw blade and get the motor and get the whole power system you know the hardest part to make like that's the part I want to make first because the rest of it you know making the track and the part that moves up and down and all that stuff like it's it's it's some work but it it doesn't require like the precision that you need for mounting the blade and the motor and all that but that stuff went so smoothly I'm so happy about that and now I can figure out how to do all the rest yet I'm I'm really excited about it I'm really excited to start cutting wood too and one of the cool things is I'm gonna cut all the wood here and I'm gonna end up with just mountains of sawdust which I think is supposed to be good compost like good for the gardens and everything and this island is largely clay like you can you can make pottery with the clay it's so it's very clay so getting a nice layer of decomposing sawdust on a lot of it will be really good I think I think that's right I'm so excited to see yeah okay I tried using an old satellite dish to cook on results are sketchy at best I think I can get it to work but uh how how big was it anyway let's see why didn't you want to do a simpler Alaskan style mill chainsaw on a slide okay I have I actually have one of those I made one there was just it's really easy to make just took some aluminum square tube and a few bolts and made an Alaskan lumber mill the problem with a chainsaw well there are a few things one is it cuts a really fat line so you waste a lot of wood another thing is um well I guess I do have an electric chainsaw but I I guess first I'm thinking about my gas chainsaw that means I have to keep buying gas and oil and you know I don't want to have to keep buying gas for for cutting wood I would like to do it without using a fossil fuel and I understand solar panels are made using fossil fuels whatever whatever but like here I can do it without having to constantly pay for more gas if I run it off electricity so I want to do something electric not a gas motor and then a chainsaw even an electric one still needs oil constantly in the in the chain and it spits oil everywhere which would be less great for you know the sawdust coming off it putting that into my garden I'm going to be putting motor oil in there too and plus it spits every oil everywhere and gets all over the place and smells bad yeah there's just a lot of reasons and then the other thing is within alaskan lumber mill you need you need to start with one flat cut or one flat something you can put on I know you can put a ladder or you know there are ways to do it but uh you know you're also kind of limited in what it can cut you know with a swing with a swing blade lumber mill I can put the log there I can go like this cut and swing the thing you cut back this way and just do all that cuts without moving the log there's no oil spitting everywhere there's no gasoline being used they're just uh yeah hopefully that covers basically what I want to do it all the wood that's currently in my house I cut with a chainsaw and I can I can cut pretty good boards just just free-handing like not even putting a line on the log or anything I can just I can just look at it imagine a straight line take my chainsaw and make really nice boards like uh like this table right here which my friend the other day came over and was like man where did you get these boards they're so they're so perfect now I'm like hey I cut them out of the forest I chainsawed them and I planed the tops so it was smooth but yeah now would you date or marry a local or do you only look for American or Canadian I would date or marry any but a person that I like I don't I don't care where they're from they don't even have to be from this planet well they gotta be human though or at least human compatible anyway there's no there's no aliens that I know anyway um but yeah I don't have any particular nationality I don't I don't I don't even care about national borders that much uh let's see yeah I would totally date anyone although dating I don't want to date someone I'm gonna like have a relationship anyway the issue with sawdust is it can use up the nitrogen need need to combine with green material or manure okay so yeah so sawdust I'll mix it with cut grass or I can get probably well should I poop on it do I need to poop on it do I need to poop on my sawdust mix it in make like some sawdust poop concrete no I think I'll just stick with mixing leaves and grass in with it can I pee on it if I pee on I would totally pee on my sawdust will that make it I'm gonna have to I'm gonna have to learn about composting sawdust when I get to that point um maybe someone here will tell me at some point see it'll use up the nitrogen yeah so I need to use something like that I am working on a bandsaw style lumber mill prefer a wider cut yeah I my first lumber mill I made was a bandsaw and yeah being able to cut wide boards that that is really awesome um that is a huge advantage that the bandsaw has over the like a circular blade I I decided to go with a circular blade partly because I can get a circular blade more easily but also because you don't have to sharpen it as often and you know with like a bandsaw is amazing as long as everything is perfect but if you know there's any little if it gets too dull it'll start you know it's it's a little more finicky and I want I want something a little more robust um but yeah a bandsaw lumber mill is is a really cool thing too and the first one I made was a bandsaw lumber mill and it works great and yeah I definitely did have a debate on which I was going to do okay this is about the satellite dish Mike used to cook with it was a a dish tv size unit so is that like the little ones like this I don't think that's not going to be enough to cook with needs like the big one because it's only going to take the sun from that big an area that's that's not that cheap um I stripped the paint off and polished it to a mirror finish focus of the beam of sunlight is critical it made a cup of espresso on Sunday day at noon maybe yeah the thing is like as you're going to cook like a pot that's like this big you only have to focus the light down to this point if so if you're focusing enough light down to this point it's not that hot and it's not going to do anything it doesn't matter if you can focus down to a little point super hot unless you're doing some heating something small but if you're trying to heat a pot you heat up a tiny little spot the heat's just going to dissipate through the whole thing anyway poop or p away p is no good for compost too much sodium mix the liquid and solids from your methane digester with the sawdust okay I don't I don't I can't get the solids out of my methane machine but I can get the liquids out I actually poured some on a bunch of plants last week and I did notice there was one plant that I kind of brownish leaves and like three days later it was like so green the rest of the plants that was the one that was the the biggest difference the rest of the plants looked like they're doing good but they didn't look that bad before anyway so I don't know hopefully it's helping it's definitely not hurting them mix the okay you need bat poop yeah I don't have bats or poop from ruminant animals like cows or horses okay okay here's my question what if I start running around a lot and eating the grass on my island just not even my hands like just like a horse just and I do a lot of running and I just eat the grass then could could I use my poop to fertilize my my land thinking yeah I don't think I can do that you should build uh you should build a sawmill with bow saw lades get an old lawnmower engine crankshaft to turn it I don't think I need an old why do I need an old lawnmower engine crankshaft to turn it with bow saw blades I did think about doing with one with bow saw blades um it's not one that would turn though it would be one that goes like at least the one what I'm thinking of is one that goes like this and it can have multiple blades and you can have it your log very slowly go through it it would just be like is that tomaters tomaters hello tomaters how's it going that tomaters made it um yeah dude you're like an hour and a half late so I don't know what you've been doing for christmas but we've been here doing this whole thing so now I'm just kidding it's good to see you I hope everything's going well and I hope you're having a great time with your your people or whoever you're you're hanging out with I was spending the morning with my kids and right now they're at Duchenne's house I might go over there in a little bit I'm thinking of going up to the hill and doing some digging okay cows have different bacteria in their guts different from human bacteria okay so what if I eat a cow and then oh that's not gonna work is it okay never mind I'll just I'll just have to I don't know I'll just have to figure out what I can what I can mix with this here uh sawdust that I don't even have yet so I don't have to worry about it yet I am composting a whole bunch of grass up on top of the hill just like you know I trimmed the grass which was like long so I had a decent amount and I made a big mound of grass and threw a bunch of leaves on there and stuff and some some ashes and charcoal Christmas digging yeah Christmas digging um I haven't got I haven't gotten that much digging done lately because it's been rainy uh so the rainy days are fine for working on working on machines which I've been very excited about but uh I haven't gotten much digging lately but today is totally sunny out and it should be dry enough that I can do some digging not in the mud which is you know that's that's the thing that holds the digging up the most is when it rains it just turns to mush and uh yeah it's not fun digging in the mud I did it when I was working on my house because I was like I don't care if I can only make 10% of my normal progress I got to get something done uh but now I can just figure out what's what's the most useful thing to do let's see have you traveled back to the U.S. since you left I have not gone back to the United States I haven't left Central America since I got here I went to Costa Rica one time and that was it and that was I don't really just to renew a visa and now we have permanent residency so we don't have to go anywhere but yeah I have no I have no plans to leave I have so much to do here and so much I'm excited about to do here like I don't I don't want to I don't want to go anywhere and so I'm I'm Canadian according to the government um like my passport's Canadian and I had a green card in the United States and when I left the U.S. I I turned in the green card and you have to like fill out a big form and go to the embassy and you know give them your green card and they said do you know what you're doing do you have any idea what you are doing turning in this green card you know what you're saying they give you a big talking to and then you'd be like okay like a lady I I know what I'm doing I have the form which was not on your government website I had to find somewhere else by the way I filled out the form I got my green card here I'd like to turn it in give me a receipt and now if I go back to the United States I have to I have to show the paper that says I leave I lawfully turned in my green card or else they don't let me in the country so I don't know I have that paper somewhere so but I don't plan to go to the United States probably ever I don't know oh do you fully finish the dragon scales no not yet tell me tell me wife that at classic dude Mike tell tell somebody's wife Mike you better go tell that guy's wife something could you use sawdust and human waste help fuel a forge huh could I mix mix sawdust with poop and fuel a forge you probably could I mean you have to dry out the poop of course you don't want you don't want wet poop would be stinky but you don't have to worry about consuming it yes I would definitely if I mixed poop with sawdust I would definitely not eat it so that that's yeah I'm with you I'm with you there hundred percent better we call those pizzas with the up and down is that a typo okay we call those pizzas with the up and down blade and they use them in their gangs frequently where you might where you get multiple blades in one gang just need an arm to provide the up and down motion from a motor we oh you call those pizzas so that those are called pizzas the blades are like this I was thinking about making a a windmill that would that would work like that just make sure you have lots of rain worms in your compost what are what are rain worms are those the worms that are those the worms that come out when it rains because I have some of those run well they don't want you to leave with your possible tax money uh that why they have a yeah so if you have a if you have a green card in the United States you have to pay taxes in the United States even if you don't live there anymore even if you live in another country the United States they come after you even if you're even if you're living in another country which is kind of uh whatever um so yeah when I turned in my green card I was fully aware that they don't want me to turn in my green card because they then they can't tax me anymore and yeah yes Tomaters I've been legal for I don't know six years or something five years I don't know I guess it's been a while since I've been legalized in this country while they just need a form and the system to place everything into yes yeah every everybody everybody on the planet these people who are you know in charge they they all want to get you like numbered and like put into your category and then they can say all right get these people to go do this and make those people do that and stuff these people in this hole and shove those people in this in this jail I mean I mean beautiful compound no not compound nice nice place to be yeah too much too much control over people just too much control uh I think we need to get back to a society with with way fewer laws and rely much more on our own morality which is what this is all about adventure builders adventure builder clubs yeah rely on your own morality do what's right not don't don't pay attention to the laws nearly as much as what you think is right Jamie have you been thinking of other materials you could recycle like what you did with a styrofoam like pt bottles or used car tires for example okay so what he's talking about is this wall right here and this part up here not this part this part's regular concrete but this part up here and this part down here is styrocrete so it's it's actually mostly styrofoam bits chewed up and I've I've recycled just I almost like an unbelievable amount of styrofoam in building this place in the bridge and a few other things like I've I've taken a lot of styrofoam out of the garbage system and turned it into useful stuff which is I'm very I'm very happy about that I'm kind of proud of that so he's asking if I have plans for recycling other materials I have used old car tires on some things um plastic bottles I've used plastic well one of my boats the shark slicer has hundreds of plastic bottles inside the fronts and the backs of the pontoons you know in kind of the dead space where no one goes there's nothing in there it's just I filled it with bottles so that if at some point there's a there's a leak you know I get a hold in the boat or something the bottles will will still keep it floating even though I'll lose a bit of buoyancy because there's some space between the bottles but they'll they'll keep me floating so yeah I mean I try to I try to reuse like anything you know really um plastic anything any yeah any any stuff that's going into the garbage I I try to put pressure on the world to have things come out of the garbage and become useful again hold on let's see okay you need nitrogen when plants are growing leaves later on you need potassium and phosphorus when flowering okay potassium and phosphorus my god voice to text is terrible it's a pit saw a pit saw okay I know what you're talking about not a pizza so Ben was I think that was Ben Ben earlier when he was talking about the the pizza it was a pit saw which is a saw where like one person gets in a in the ground in a hole and there's a log on the ground another person gets above and the you know they basically take a saw the person's like the person at the bottom that's like pushing the saw up and down and the person at the top is pulling the saw up and down they you know saw through the log like that except not that fast yeah that's a pit saw but if you have a motorized thing that you don't have to have the people standing in a hole and stuff tow maters is showing some adventure building love feel like I need to rewatch THX 1138 I have not I've not watched that in a long time it's a it's basically a movie where oh it's his name Robert Duvall I think that's his name except that's not his name in a movie he's living in this society that's very restrictive basically he's basically living in a prison but he escapes to the to the surface and yeah I feel like I feel like that's what I've largely done with my life although I'm not you know there's never there's no way to completely escape a system like we have today until it's not functioning anymore I wonder if coconut husk would make a good substrate in concrete I don't know he might but I I think it would definitely work in the short term but I don't know if it would like degrade or over time and you know and disappear and stuff I've used burlap before and the burlap was amazing for a while and then it just kind of disintegrated but it might have been because it got dirty before I used it so it started molding and stuff in there I don't know oh that's a neat idea like those artificial island with the bottles that's a neat contingency plan yeah keep up the great work on the videos and shows well thanks c-star web I will do my best I'm glad I'm glad you're enjoying it you might consider using pvc pipes to establish air channels into your compost compost piles I've thought about I mean people have suggested that but I don't really want to put pvc pipes into my compost like it's just it just seems like something I don't want to do I think maybe I more just want to like kick it or like shovel with a shovel or smush it around just to get it fluffing up and moving get the air squishing like if I even if I just like took a shovel and make shoved down on the top of it and got it bouncing a little that would push air out and suck it in right like that would get the oxygen in there and maybe if maybe every time I walk by my compost pile I'll just like shove it a little get it to you know get the air moving moving through it um especially if you don't turn them often it's supposed to increase the mycelium growth and supposed supposedly very good yeah I haven't been turning my compost piles at all I don't know the person in the in the pit of a pit saw it is called an underdog cool the under hey hey underdog you got the underdog and the overdog is that what the top person is well merry christmas to joe blow organics in concrete is a no-go yeah that's kind of the experience I've had putting putting organic material in the concrete you know it ends up disintegrating over time poly polypropylene I think doesn't disintegrate I I looked this up a while ago I think it's polypropylene plastic doesn't react with the concrete and it'll they'll stay in there that's I've got polypropylene ropes going through here and they're all they're all pulled tight to keep tension on the concrete you don't want to use polyester ropes because the polyester supposedly uh like kind of disintegrates in the in the concrete I don't remember what the reaction reaction was or whatever uh vinyl I think is supposed to be okay too but don't take my word for this you I don't remember exactly chili ears oh chili mmm chili ears have poop that burns hotter just for your information the more you know wait really is it has nothing to do with the hot sauce I'm presuming unless that was a joke turning compost is therapeutic oh nor is there an island boy do you want to come do some therapy at my house yeah I'll I'll go turn my my uh compost yeah I I guess it's not a big deal I can turn it yeah from what I understand you can do absolutely nothing to compost and it will still work everything else is just extra and may make it work a little better faster yeah I mean that's kind of what I was thinking like I'm in such a warm climate and it rains enough that this stuff you know it's always getting wet and then hot I feel like the compost is gonna go at a fairly good rate and maybe if maybe if I'm you know I'm walking past it and I have the right tool or something I'll I'll turn it a little but for the most part I feel like I should put more effort into making more compost rather than doing stuff to the compost that's already there but yeah I'm gonna maybe I'll maybe I'll have two different piles one where I just piled stuff and another one where I turn it over every now and then see what the difference is or maybe I'll just not worry about it because I have so many things going on if the compost takes a little longer fine Jamie when the kids get older are you guys planning on something like a rum springer if too personal obviously feel free not to answer well the thing is my kids can do whatever they want if I'm not going to do like a rum springer for anyone who doesn't know and excuse me if I get any of this wrong in like like Amish communities you know it's a very tight-knit community and you're kind of either in the community or the or you're out of the community and at some point when you're a teenager or something people do a year of rum springer where they go off and experience the world and if they come back after that year then they are in the community but if they don't want to come back well then they can't come back they are out in doing their own thing so I don't I don't need to do anything that formal or anything if my kids want to go travel the world or whatever I will give them all the information I can and how try to help them make the best decisions they can I do not want my daughters traveling by themselves you know for a lot of obvious reasons and I realized that a lot of people take issue with that well they should be able to do anything they want no no a lot of bad things happen you know and anyway I don't know I'm just gonna try to you know help my kids do do whatever they want to do with their lives in the best way I possibly can and that is actually one of the reasons I'm setting up a lot of the stuff here is I want them to have a home where you know I get I always get this accusation not always but I sometimes get this accusation that having kids in a place like this I'm taking taking opportunities away from them because they're not living in a city but I think I'm giving them opportunities because I'm giving them a safe home that will provide them with all the stuff they need to survive so that stuff is taken care of right so that means you know they've got a home they got the the things they need to survive taken care of you know they have to participate in it to keep it going and everything but that means all that stuff they've they've got that under control and then they can figure out what they want to do in addition to that which is huge freedom not a restriction whereas if you grow up like I did it's like okay you're an adult get out go live go to university rack of a bunch of debt and now you're just you're basically a slave because you're you have no way of feeding yourself other than than paying money and you owe money and money money money money money like I felt extremely restricted by that and in this the lifestyle I have here I feel like I'm giving my kids just way more freedom than I had growing up where everything was money in debt hopefully that answers that question this is great I feel like I'm at a round table of adventure builders yes classic dude Mike I'd love to hey island boy I sent you an email wait why am I reading this this is a conversation between you guys with the youtube link about a guy with an automatic chainsaw lumber mill for cutting perfect boards with just a chainsaw mounted on a rail in trolley WYT what's WYT will it I don't know someday I will which insects caused you and the family the most trouble this the little the little they're called chitras chitras c-h-i-t-r-a chitra yeah they're they're like mini mosquitoes so like they're small enough that are hard to see the mosquitoes aren't actually there aren't even that many mosquitoes I know I smacked one earlier today on on this but the mosquitoes you can see them you can hear them and they're not they're not that many they're very rarely encounter mosquito it's easy to smack them but these stupid little chitras like you can't even see them and you go outside in either the morning or the evening and it depends on the time of year and the weather and stuff sometimes there's nothing but you know if the bugs are out it's like suddenly you start getting itchy and it's like oh no they're biting me uh the good thing about them is if you like light a coconut husk and put it on the ground like just that little bit of smoke makes them all go away which is great and they're generally not out in the daytime or at night it's just like dawn and dusk or if the weather changes in such a way that it's you know similar to dawn or dusk like it suddenly gets brighter or dark or you know it starts raining or stops or something like that but yeah those are those are the worst bugs the chitras that's pretty much the only one we really are annoyed by it a new bad joke for my nephew how does god fix his tea he brews it spelled hebrew charcoal and crushed shells are good soil enrichment i can definitely get crushed cells crushed shells not cells shells by the way i gotta remember this charcoal and crushed cell shells okay i did pretty much know that but okay by the way have you considered to do aquaculture somewhere near your island to grow edible mussels i've actually thought about making a pond on my land having freshwater fish growing in it and yeah i've thought about doing that and then using the water to you know fertilize things and you know all that stuff fredrik brindcret you sent me an email through youtube haven't seen it but i'll look wait email on youtube does youtube have a messaging system again i don't know it they keep changing stuff let's see you are giving them something the tendency toward disorganization chaos is moving much more slowly on your life islands than in the u.s or canada yeah man you know you know it was okay okay so you're mentioning a lot of craziness going on in the u.s and canada and a lot of parts of the world when i when i was working on my house when i built my house i was basically just disconnected from the rest of the world for a year like i i almost never went online like for months at a time i didn't i didn't even check my email or anything uh so for a year i was pretty much totally disconnected so at the end of that year when i was like well let's go online and see what's going on i got that whole year worth of garbage all at once and i was like wow you should try it like try not paying attention to the news or anything and not not not talking about what's going on in the world for like a year and then and then get get that whole year all at once it's it's shocking how how far things can fall in a year when you see it all at once it's just crazy oh what you think w y t what you think i see i've more than once imagined the man cell children children being a big part of the future of society thinking of how things could go in the next 50 years their unique perspective and separation could be huge well you know one of the things there's a very good chance that with the direction we're going right now our current civilization is basically just going to slowly crumble and the people who are going to make it and thrive are the ones who are you know living off grid outside of the cities and all those cities are just going to kind of slowly disappear and what's going to grow up like fill in all that space is you know the off-grid communities which are going to become bigger and then you know eventually they'll become advanced and start and then people will stupidly be like oh we should have some form of government to rule us to i mean not to rule us just just to help organize things and then you know you end up in the whole cycle of oppression and tyranny again this thing keeps going like if you look back through history it's just a cycle that keeps going over and over and over so i mean chances are that's what's going to happen again so if if someone was going to ask me what they should do at this point in the cycle like get out of cities like get to get to a place where you can live self-sufficiently and be in a situation where you're not dependent on the systems that cities depend on because that's going to be the people who whose lives are are getting better as everyone else is getting worse and you know the people in cities are going to try to drag down the people living outside of cities with them um because that's just what people do but yeah whatever you're going to be much better off living out of a city you know as things go kind of downhill unless you don't buy the idea that things are going downhill if you think everything's fine fine i was wondering hi jamie i was wondering it's a small island but but the sea floor around you is very big is there any way for you to utilize the sea floor i have no idea myself yeah i mean i could i could build houses they did there's a lot of very shallow water around my island well one side has deep water one side has shallow water but if the shallow goes out pretty far you know i could build a dock out there that goes way out into the water and i could build huts on it i could i could find a bunch of dirt and you know just make the island bigger whatever a lot of this stuff you know i don't i don't know if i'm supposed to get permits to do it or whatever pretty much everything i'm doing right now is pretty safely within legal limits as far as i understand of course i don't know all the laws which is why i'm always a little bit cautious because i never know when there's some guys gonna be like oh you're doing something illegal um oh i sent an email to jamie about chainsaw lumber mill oh what do i think about that well i didn't i saw i saw the video i didn't watch the video yet because again it was like pretty much the only time i see this stuff is like if i wake up at like two in the morning and i'm just like oh i'm just awake for half an hour or an hour or whatever let me go look at some stuff and my kids were here so i couldn't play videos because it would have been i don't want to wake anyone up but i did see it i'm not i'm not particularly interested in making that though because i don't want to cut wood with a chainsaw partly because it cuts a fat line and you know i don't want to have to have the chain oiled constantly you know i i'm just building a different kind of lumber mill for a lot of reasons and i'm doing i'm doing that i'll probably watch the video just to see to see how that guy built his thing um because it might be interesting i'll probably skip through it a bunch though you know kind of look for the highlights my nine-year-old daughter wants to know if your daughter plays roblox this is an online video game thing right yeah my kids don't really do any online stuff let me do a little bit they do some at the shana's house they do some online school stuff and they have some you know video conference classes kind of thing that kind of thing became much more popular when the quarantines were going on so that was kind of nice you know there's a lot of online educational resources that my kids use but they don't they don't just spend time on the internet when they're playing they're like playing with lego my daughter has this whole crazy workshop right over there she she curtained off a like a room for herself she's just like i'm i'm taking over the spot she's curtained off this this room like right over there and she's yeah she's got a crazy workshop over there and she makes dolls and doll houses and she makes like little uh like cars and stuff and machines and she makes clothes for herself she she shows a lot she makes her own like a lot of her own clothes most of her own clothes she's kind of kind of got like a princess princess punk style it's pretty cool i like it but yeah she my kids do things in real life you know with with their hands they don't they don't spend much time looking at screens doing things but they don't they don't actually know what roblox is as far as i know i was confused i think the reason for not using a chainsaw was to avoid fossil fuel yes that is one reason electric from solar means you never run out of fuel yeah i could run an electric chainsaw but then i still need the chain the chain part itself needs oil to lubricate it right so i would still need oil for that and then the chain also cuts a fatter a fatter cut so it wastes more more wood um and also you know even even when you get a really a really straight cut with a chainsaw it's not as it's not as smooth as like a circular saw blade like it's it's going to cut smoother surface so and you know there isn't any perfect way anyone should be doing it i'm just i want i'm going to build the lumber mill that i want to build uh you have wind for kite surfing sale yes definitely have enough wind i mean depends when but it definitely gets windy sometimes i've never i don't have any interest in kite surfing though because i feel like the logistics of having all these strings and a thing on the end of the strings is just it's just more than i want to deal with like i like wind surfing you know where you just hold your sail i love that i would love to get a wind surfer here maybe i should maybe i should get one i could make one i don't know that would actually be really fun going somewhere like i've i've done windsurfing before but it was always just kind of a recreational thing you know my my high school track and field coach was into windsurfing they used to take me windsurfing and a couple other other guys a few times and it was really fun but here i could actually like go miles to somewhere and you know do something i could i could like windsurf all the way to town if i wanted to like man that would be a long windsurf lumber mill airfoil airfoil worked great as long as you don't get wet attention all adventure builders wake up early and build and get some real sunlight in your eyes for a half an hour every day it makes all the difference in the world it's science also more efficient cutting both horizontal and vertical okay so this is talking about the lumber mill still yeah one of the things i really like about the the swing blade is that you can cut you can cut this way and then you can cut this way so you can just have your log sitting there you don't have to move the log and it's very easy to make your you know you just move the blade however wide you want your boards to be and it works really well you could set up a chainsaw on a thing that will tilt too so you could cut this way and that way but i mean one of the another reason that i want to use a circular blade and this is this was the original reason i really got interested in the swing blades is because when you use a circular blade you can you know you the blades come with carbide tips so they last a long time you don't have to sharpen them all the time whereas the chainsaw blade you have to sharpen all the time now you can get chainsaw blades with carbide tips but i've seen kind of mixed reviews about them plus you still have to oil the the chain i don't want to have to use consumables to run my lumber mill um ian's talking about the the the the historical cycle cycle of the you know the rise and fall of civilization this is like organization to chaos to organization to chaos yeah just over and over submarine build lol joking no no i i want to build a submarine yeah totally sometimes it's better to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission yeah when i was in vermont that was that was a very common saying like just just do your thing and if the government government officials have a problem just say yeah i'm sorry and then try to figure out whatever you have to do to appease them after the fact it is easier than trying to get permission to do something although even even better is just to do your thing and not have people up in in your face okay speaking of oiling chainsaw bars did you know canola oil works harmless to the environment and cheaper still i have to buy oil over and over and keep doing it but maybe i'll put canola oil in my in my chainsaw because i i'm still gonna have to have a chainsaw i guess i don't have to but i'm still going to use a chainsaw to cut logs to some sizes that i can move to get to the lumber mill and then and then cut so i'm still going to use my chainsaw for that the guy with the chainsaw video is brilliant well i'll have to check it out then although sometimes when people tell me someone is brilliant i watch and i'm like this guy is not brilliant that's happened a lot actually where i'm immediately like ah there's a mistake right there a glaring problem with like just the big this person's character because they're not adventure builders if you're not doing something illegal you ain't having fun ah Merry Christmas Jamie and family okay i'm over two hours here i think i'm gonna take off a second let me just get through the rest of these video when i when i started watching this chainsaw lumber mill video i had the same thoughts like you not worth watching let me skip parts okay i realized it's a good idea and yes it cuts oh then it got my interest okay sounds like the giant robot school house is gonna need a laser saw laser saw yeah that'd be great okay this is talking about a chainsaw it cuts smooth it's also portable from it for the huge logs you can move to the lumber mill so yeah yeah i don't i don't want to have again i don't want to have a chainsaw that uses gasoline so i'm not going to have something portable that i'm going to take with me and i'm not going to cart a bunch of solar panels with me so that that's not relevant but i've never i've no other things you gotta keep sharpening a chainsaw and it's good it cut flat ish but i don't imagine a chainsaw will cut this flat a surface as like a carbide tip circular saw blade maybe i'm wrong but i've never seen it even even using like a guided chainsaw that's like on a thing you know this dream is so much fun put a sail on the shark slice i've been thinking about it the thing is um the winds are so unreliable like unpredictable here like they change a lot so sailing is a little tricky question i thought one of your electric boats was going to incorporate a sailing element yeah i mean yeah i always tell myself that i am brilliant then i fix what i messed up i don't tell myself that i'm going i'm just whoever i am all right well i think i'm gonna go i don't know i'm gonna go eat something now because i haven't eaten anything in a while and i hope everyone is having an excellent day go hug your family and give everyone love and then remember that tomorrow even though it's not Christmas you can still hug everyone and give them lots of love anyway and the next day after that and the next day after that and we can just do that all the time and that sounds great okay i hope everyone has a marvelous day and we're still talking about chainsaw mills if you use a ripping chainsaw mill you get a smooth you can all okay you can cut almost as smooth as a circular okay so with a chainsaw in the optimal circumstances you can almost get as smooth as a circular saw blade well i'm just going to go with a circular saw blade then yeah okay thanks for keeping it real yes enough with the chainsaw ain't happening yes it's not happening i mean other people are using a chainsaw for the thing but i'm i already started building the thing i'm building and i'm happy with it okay automatic happy christmas everyone have a wonderful day and i hope you give lots of love to your people and i am getting out of here can't wait for more videos i will be putting more up soon okay audio